Marketing and Robot Autonomy

Robot or not robot or not . John Paul wrote in the robot at the incomparable. com and asked about cobots which are collaborative robots. Does John consider a cobot to be a true robot as it requires a human to function? Does John think there are any current robots, cars, vacuums, etc that qualify as cobots? I have come across the term in the context of factories of the future where humans and cobots will work hand in deadly metal claw to build products of the future. So I guess he's kind of asking here about like if a hum an and augmented machine collaboration , you know, does that have a does that deserve a name of its own like cobot and, you know, when does a robot when is it just a cobot? Is everything that fails your robot terminology maybe by definition a cobot because it requires a human to help it? 've never heard the term cobot before. I kind of get the idea of like that you worked humans work together with robots, but like let's just take our little room friend Roomba or one of our minimal robots . If you follow the Roomba around and help it sweep up and you're kind of working together, it's doing one part, you're doing another, you kind of meet in the middle, it sees you, it backs off, goes in the other direction, blah blah blah. Did it suddenly become a cobot or are you just helping out with a robot that was already doing its thing? Like I mean does the cobot need to be aware that you exist? I mean the Rumba is aware that you exist if you get it in its way or whatever, but it doesn't know that it's doing a job with you. Like I don't know the level of dependency here. If a cobot can't do anything without the person there, it's not a robot. If it is a robot that also has the ability to sense when a person is trying to collaborate with it and can collaborate, then it's a robot that's pretty fancy and cool and can do stuff. But I don't know if the term I mean cobot sounds like a marketing thing is like put robots in your factory but then humans can help them. Yeah big, robotss. It' a big robot robot. Big robots trying to get you with this term. This is just all big robot marketing. Yeah . Because I mean these are tools right and I think you're right. I think either they're tools that people use or they're robots that are taking commands from people So robots can be aware that a person like again a Rumba is aware barriers exist to doing its work, but it isn't aware that people exist and may be collaborating with it, but a more fancy room could be aware that people exist and could collaborate with it and could pass information and stuff back and forth like it could beep when it's coming into a room and if you shout back at it, it could go to another room and like that's just a better robot. I wouldn't rotate a I was going to say in the factory of the future that is totally a lie and they're going to kill all humans , where a human and a cobot are working side by side where the human does some things and hands it off and then a cobot does some things autonomous ly and all of that. I would just say that's a person and a robot working in a factory together . Yeah The human being part of the chain, if the robot, if the device is being independent and making these decisions and all of that, then it's a rob ot. And if it's if it's just a forklift or whatever, it's not a robot. A person has to control everything it does. So I feel like it's yeah, yeah, this is definitely a marketing term. We're all going to work together everybody. Humans and robots, or should we say cobots? Because they're your friends Robot or not